Ukraine: NOW It Makes Sense.

A lot of people have been puzzled, wondering how Ukraine has managed to turn the tide and inflict such serious damage on Russian forces, not to mention regaining control of lands previously in Russian hands.

Well, knock me over with a feather -- surprise, surprise, it seems that American and British special forces are in Kviv to serve as military advisors to Zelenskyy -- no kidding, didn't see that one coming at all.

Couple that with logistics support and target spotting for the Ukrainians with satellite reconnaissance, and suddenly this thing becomes attention getting from a tactical point of view.

And then there's the other interesting new wrinkle: the apparent sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. It wasn't the Russians who did that, now was it. Biden smiles a bit too broadly these days, but I digress.

Sounds like an escalation and a likely widening of a regional war. Putin's partial mobilization is proof enough of that, and of his political desperation. Despots do strange things when cornered.

As Churchill said: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”